What are oysters and what do they look like? In fact, oysters are still very amusing people like to eat, and in coastal areas is very common, but for some people, oysters are indeed very strange. The following Xiao Xiao will take you to understand the oyster.
What are oysters
Oysters generally refer to oysters.
The whole of the oyster and its relatives, is a marine shell. In the subtropical, tropical coasts are suitable for oyster farming, China's distribution is very wide, from the Yalu River in the north to Hainan Island in the south, coastal oysters can be produced. Oyster is a soft body with shell, dependent parasitic animals, fresh and salt water junction is particularly fertile.
The oyster is a mollusk, there are two shells, one small and flat, the other large and bulging, the surface of the shell is uneven. The meat is used for food, and oyster oil can be extracted. The meat, shell, and oil are all used in medicine, and are also called oysters or sea oysters.
What do oysters look like
Oysters have an irregular shell shape, the size, thickness varies according to the species; the left shell or lower shell is larger and concave, attached to the rock or slate, the right shell or upper shell is smaller and flat, covered as a cover. Feet and filaments absent. There is only one closed-shell muscle, and most of the small tentacles growing outside the outer coat membrane are sensory organs.
The two shells of the oyster are different in shape, with a rough, dark gray surface; the middle of the upper shell is elevated; the lower shell is attached to other objects, larger, rather flat, with smoother edges; the inner surfaces of the two shells are white and smooth. The two shells are connected at the narrower end by an elastic ligament. In the middle of the shell there is a strong closed-shell muscle, which is used to counteract the tension of the ligament. When the shell is slightly open, water is introduced into the shell by the wavy movement of the cilia (up to 2?3 gallons of water flow through the shell per hour) to filter and feed on microscopic organisms. #p#Subtitle#e#
How to eat oysters
1, raw: Brush the consuming shell and pry it open, add a little lemon or dipping sauce, you can eat the most original flavor of oysters. Because oysters are particularly demanding on the growing environment, so if you eat oysters from unclean waters don't buy them. It is easily contaminated by germs. And it is a filter-feeding shellfish, which is easy to accumulate pathogenic microorganisms in the body, especially norovirus and Vibrio parahaemolyticus. Therefore, it is recommended to try not to eat it raw.
2, steamed to eat: the clean life into the pot steamed for 5 minutes, you can dip the garlic sauce ah, sauce ah what to eat. This way of eating is safer and can still eat its fresh flavor.
3, grilled to eat: with cooking oil fried garlic, chili, dripping life on the charcoal fire, while grilling, while pouring juice. Talk about having material sister are drooling.
4, cooking porridge: boil with boiling water, do not cook, cut into cubes, put into the round-grained rice to cook together, and finally sprinkle some green onions can be beautiful to drink a big bowl. And more stomach nutrition, you can always eat.